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Chinese Physics B
Chin. Phys. B, 2013, Vol. 22(8): 087411    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/22/8/087411
Special Issue: TOPICAL REVIEW — Iron-based high temperature superconductors
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Spin fluctuations and unconventional superconducting pairing in iron-based superconductors
Yu Shun-Li (于顺利), Li Jian-Xin (李建新)
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Abstract  In this article, we review the recent theoretical works on the spin fluctuations and superconductivity in iron-based superconductors. Using the fluctuation exchange approximation and multi-orbital tight-binding models, we study the characteristics of the spin fluctuations and the symmetries of the superconducting gaps for different iron-based superconductors. We explore the systems with both electron-like and hole-like Fermi surfaces (FS) and the systems with only the electron-like FS. We argue that the spin-fluctuation theories are successful in explaining at least the essential part of the problems, indicating that the spin fluctuation is the common origin of superconductivity in iron-based superconductors.
Keywords:  iron-base superconductors      spin fluctuations      pairing symmetry  
Received:  16 June 2013      Revised:  24 June 2013      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  74.70.Xa (Pnictides and chalcogenides)  
  74.20.-z (Theories and models of superconducting state)  
  74.20.Rp (Pairing symmetries (other than s-wave))  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91021001, 11190023, and 11204125) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grants Nos. 2011CB922101 and 2011CB605902).
Corresponding Authors:  Li Jian-Xin     E-mail:  jxli@nju.edu.cn

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Yu Shun-Li (于顺利), Li Jian-Xin (李建新) Spin fluctuations and unconventional superconducting pairing in iron-based superconductors 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 087411

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